I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWorldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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